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If you think the SNP select the ‘best of the best’ to be
MPs, then you would be entirely wrong, you don’t get the bets, you don’t get
the smartest, and you don’t get the representation.

David Cameron made Michelle Mone a peer using the honours
list, this is something which PM on leaving office do, it didn’t set the
heather on fire to be fair. The House of Lords is stuffed with people who do a
great job in holding the government to account, and also some others who
sometimes fall asleep on the benches.

If you know anything about Westminster, you will know that it is a
matter of historical record accessible by the public on who votes and when. In
fact, outside Westminster,
you can also find external organisations which tracks all votes, all speeches,
all written questions and answers, so there is no need to get something wrong
on a person’s contribution.

It seems that Michelle Mone has publicly stated that Glasgow
SNP MP Stewart McDonald is an 'SNP moron', apparently she reacted badly to
being insulted by McDonald, in an angry and justified exchange on Twitter she
let rip stating that she will be a 'baroness for life' and that Stewart
McDonald would be kicked out of office “in no time”.

McDonald; represents Glasgow South and is the SNP
Westminster spokesman for Defence, a joke appointment by the electorate and the
SNP as defence spokesman. So, how did it all start, well, McDonald thinking he
was a smart arse decided to have a pop about Mone’s commercial success of her
designer jewellery firm and her voting record.

Mone stated:

“It’s official… I am now the No1 best selling designer
jewellery brand on OVC!”

Hardly anything to be subject to an unprovoked attack!

In reply, Stewart McDonald said:

“How thrilling. Since becoming a Baroness and legislator ­
for which she is entitled to £300 per day – Ms Mone has submitted no questions
to government and taken part in only two votes. Still, she’s sold some
jewellery.”

Then came the good bit, and of course facts win out:

“What are u talking about u SNP MORON!I have voted over 78
times, not twice!I’m a Global entrepreneur with 9 biz interests not a full time
MP like u!The difference is I’m a Baroness for life,whereas u will be out of ur
MP job in no time...”

So, the smear, done as a casual remark to humiliate turned out
rather badly for the SNP MP, 78 votes is more than 2 votes if memory serves, and
this information is readily available to MPs and indeed anyone else who can do
even the most casual research on the internet, its all there in black and
white. At times like this, I am reminded of this quote:

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they
are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of
teachers.”

Charles William Eliot

It seems that McDonald needs to do more reading before
engaging his fat gub below his little piggy eyes.

Of course when you stick the boot in, it is always best to
keep going, so Michelle Mone stated that she donates her £300-a-day Lords
allowance to charity and asked what Mr McDonald MP spent his £316 Commons salary
on.

Mone then finished of by saying:

“Now off you trot and get on with your day job”.

There is no such thing as a smart SNP MP in my opinion, when
the SNP descend on Westminster in 2015, they acted like gits, they still are
although 2017 saw a clear out, there are 35 of them polluting the pond down
there of which McDonald is one of them.

SNP Moron…….
has a nice ring to it doesn’t, the thing is, if you shout this at a pack of
them walking down the road, they all answer to it!

The ‘Hunter Virus’ strikes again, back a few years ago, I
coined that expression to explain the stupidity that infects the SNP.

If there is anything that is "dead in water", it
is Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP’s attempt to stop Brexit, Brexit is a battle
lost, it was lost well before the 23 rd June 2016, and here we are 2018, and
still denial of fact.

If you watch the circus that is politics, you can help
feeling disappointed, disappointed in the lack of choice, the lack of talent
and the lack of vision, in the past in this country, we had great politicians,
now we have for the most part a collection of dross.

After WW2; we have seen the greatest achievements in this
country in terms of social reforms, like the creation of the NHS and the
Welfare. Pretty much at every election, this is celebrated as part of what it
means to be British. The question in recent years is what does it mean to be
British, there are several constructs, the various parties have political views;
the public have different view which I would argue is based on community.

What was Brexit about?

Brexit at its heart about sovereignty, we as a sovereign
people making our own choices, electing our own leaders, and importantly
holding them to account, and the need to hold politicians to account by the
public is more vital than ever. The SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has seized on a leaked
UK Government analysis concluded Britain
would be worse off whatever deal is struck with Brussels.

So, what is a leaked UK Government analysis means,
it is an opinion, and everyone has an opinion, a question you need to ask, what
price is freedom? People through-out history have paid the highest price with
their lives, we in the UK
by gaining our freedom are being off cheap.

Europe is heading for
dictatorship, the unelected few will attempt to control the many, the threat is
greater than the Cold Curtain in my opinion because the threat that European
people face is betrayal by their own elected politicians who have sold them
out, sold out the people, sold out their country and sold out their heritage.

Europe’s childless leaders which Nicola Sturgeon is one have
no reason to worry about the future much like Angela Merkel, Dutch Prime
Minister Mark Rutte and the French president Emmanuel Macron, Swedish Prime
Minister Stefan Löfven and Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel.

"for the childless, thinking in terms of the
generations to come loses relevance. Therefore, they behave more and more as if
they were the last and see themselves as standing at the end of the chain".

For someone like Nicola Sturgeon, she is trying to be a
footnote in history, what she doesn’t realise yet, she is already irrelevant,
history has moved passed her. There is no “watershed moment” in the Brexit
process because of one simple inescapable fact, that fact is money.

Money makes the world go round, and billions command people’s
attentions especially when rich people feel that their prospects are
threatened. So, there will be a Brexit deal that everyone can live with in the
short term, Sturgeon declaring:

“Time is running out and the chaos in Downing
Street must end. Theresa May must face down the hard
Brexiteers around her and put jobs and living standards front and centre of the
Brexit negotiations by remaining in the single market and customs union.”

The single market and customs union are not in the national
and economic security interests of the UK, this has been stated time and
time again; there will be no EU membership by the back door. If there was chaos
as Sturgeon describes, then it is highly unlikely that the PM would be fly out
on a three-day trade mission to China.
If the chaos is Boris Johnson’s attempt to be PM, then he is in for a long and unfruitful
wait.

If there is a transition period via the membership of the
European Economic Area for tactical reasons then hard Brexiteers need to think
very carefully about what they are doing, economic stability is vital to the UK, country
before party must prevail. Whether people like it or not Brexit is going to
happen, the price is worth paying for our freedom, when chaos erupts in Europe, we will be as we have always been an island
fortress.

"The timing in this is highly suspicious in the sense
that suddenly in the midst of all this conversation about the European Union we
have a leaked document. But,I would observe that almost every single forecast
coming from Government, and most of the international organisations, has been
completely wrong. We should take this with a pinch of salt,"

The UK
will have a successful Brexit because in the end, the men in the grey suits,
the money men want continuity in the markets something which Nicola Sturgeon
cannot achieve within Scotland
as the country slides under her failed leadership.

If someone is subject to racism, it is a criminal offence, and as such the person has a duty to report this to the Police. A story has popped up that alleges that Anas Sarwar may have been the victim of racism.

Allegedly a Labour councillor said to Anas Sarwar he could not back him in the Scottish party leadership contest because Scotland was not ready for a "brown, Muslim Paki".

In looking at this story as a bystander, I am wondering why I am not reading that Anas Sarwar has been in contact with the Police?

And I am wondering why he has waited so long to make that allegation public since this allegedly happened during the Scottish leadership campaign which he failed to get elected as leader.

Allegedly, another allegation is that a Labour member told the MSP she could not support his leadership bid after she saw a picture of his wife wearing a hijab.

And I am wondering why he has waited so long to make that allegation public?

I didn’t vote for Anas Sarwar during the leadership contest, although I have met him several times in the past, he comes across very well, but he isn’t what the Scottish Labour Party needs as a leader.

Anas Sarwar’s campaign which he looked like the favourite to win was dogged by controversy and disaster, although he tried to present himself as ‘all things to all men’, he couldn’t shake the fact that he was a privately educated millionaire with business interests which he found hard to explain away.

Anas Sarwar’s problem isn’t colour, it isn’t religion, it isn’t his wife wearing a hijab; it’s more simple than that; his problem is his politics.

One thing about the Scottish Labour Party which sums up certain aspects of the party is the quote; ‘there are more snakes in the Labour Party than in an Indiana Jones movie’, as a Labour member, I don’t trust many people, and some people I will never campaign for, not even for money.

What might concern people is the timing of Anas Sarwar making these revelations as he prepares to launch a cross-party group on Islamophobia at the Scottish Parliament. After shouting the odds, it seems that Anas is keen to stress that does not believe he lost due to his ethnic background.

Having made the claims, Scottish Labour has decided to launch an investigation, a spokesperson said:

“What Anas has revealed is completely unacceptable. Labour has a zero tolerance approach to any form of racism and bigotry. This reported behaviour falls well short of what we expect from any member or elected representative of the Labour Party. Labour is taking steps to ensure this issue can be thoroughly investigated, and as part of that the General Secretary is contacting Anas to identify the individual involved and take appropriate action.”

Finally; Anas Sarwar had a disastrous election campaign to attempt to become leader, I wonder if he will have a disastrous complaint as well? When I don’t see a person going to the Police when they alleged racism, I have to ask myself, why, why now go public? If I was Anas Sarwar’s advisor I would have advise him not to go public, because he is launching cross-party group on Islamophobia at the Scottish Parliament.

If you ever take the time to listen to Holyrood’s FMQs, you
can’t have failed to notice that a very angry and rattled Nicola Sturgeon losing
the plot time after time. Such is the angry in Sturgeon that the SNP has run
out a new policy to punish SNP cybernats, the ‘stormtroopers of hate’ in the
independence movement. Of course, you can plainly see where the cybernats get
their hate from; it comes from the top of the senior SNP.

The SNP leaders created the cybernats, nurtured their hatred
and then let it loose on Scotland to shout down and smear opponents, the aim of
the anti free speech hate mob was to tarnish others in pursuit of independence
by any means. You have seen a long history of SNP abuse, coming from the top of
the SNP, in the ranks of MPs, MSPs and Councillors, the plebs just got in on
the act. Years ago, I blogged these people were the ‘Sons of Alex’, rent a mob,
armed to the teeth with grievance and pettiness, on the prowl for victims!

The pettiness exhibited by the SNP leadership knows no
bounds, even in the government of Scotland, but after demonstrating it,
it seems that they are so stupid that they as the Scottish Government are demanding
apology over Union flag row.

The SNP can demand whatever they want, but the reality is
that an apology isn’t going to be made. The virtue signalling SNP has
drastically reduced the occasions on which the Union flag can be flown from
public buildings, so they are in a position to demand nothing.

Of course, as usual, the act of pettiness has caused an
already angry wee Nat in the shape of Nicola Sturgeon to go on the defensive,
in an epic twitter rant, presumably to try and get some sort of moral high
ground, Sturgeon wrote:

“Since the truth doesn’t seem to matter very much to some,
let me set out the facts on this ridiculous flag story”.

“There are two essential elements to the story. One, that
the Scottish Government has recently changed its practice on what flags to fly
from government buildings on Royal occasions; and two, that I ordered such a
change. Both are wrong”.

“Since 2010, the Lion Rampant has been flown on Royal
occasions – entirely appropriately. Since the Lion Rampant is the Royal Banner,
it is not clear to me why anyone would object to that. However, the key point
is that there has been no change to this since 2010”.

“Yes, the civil service recently decided to update the
published guidance, but simply to ensure that it accurately reflected the long
standing practice – the underlying policy has not changed. And why would it?”

“As for the claim that I ordered a change, I have issued no
instructions, orders, authorisations – or even expressed an opinion – about
changing flag policy. The update of the guidance was an administrative step –
albeit a sensible one – and not done at my request”.

“Sadly, the truth will not matter to some in today’s media –
and that’s part of a much bigger problem, I’m afraid. But I still believe
(hope) it matters to most in the media – and certainly to the public”.

“Now I’ll leave those who are motivated to do so to argue
about flags. I’ll get back to matters health, education, the economy and
protecting Scotland’s
interests.”

Of course, this isn’t an argument about flags, it isn’t an
argument about flying of flags, no at its core, it is an argument about
something human, it’s about respect. Oh, and I must mention Nicola Sturgeon’s
dreadful sign off:

“Now I’ll leave those who are motivated to do so to argue
about flags. I’ll get back to matters health, education, the economy and
protecting Scotland’s
interests.”

All the departments she has mentioned are in chaos,
particularly health and education, and as we have seen time and time again, the
SNP tries to confuse, the interests of Scotland with their own goals.

"The First Minister's Trump-style Twitter denial by
candlelight last night does nothing to change the facts”.

Just to be clear, facts are the basis of investigation but
it rather looks like Nicola Sturgeon in her bunker mentality can only find the
time for emotional and angry rants.

Murdo added:

"The SNP issued a dictat on January 10 ordering Union
Flags to be flown on one day and one day only. She always stresses her civic nationalism
is nothing to do with flags and banners. The events of the last 24 hours prove
otherwise."

The flag incident comes on the back of Nicola Sturgeon’s disastrous
party political election broadcast which was such a howler for her personally.
At one stage when Nicola enters a room to bitch about SNP ‘achievements’, the
entire room clears, where did the people run off too?

Obviously if you want someone to end a joyous event quickly,
Nicola Sturgeon is the person to hire, that room empty in seconds. You could be
uncharitable think this was merely just a vehicle for promoting Nicola
Sturgeon, but the bit that I think was interesting was when the guy is sprayed
with the can of lager, instead of getting a towel, Nicola Sturgeon stands there
with a big smile on her face.

Think about that for a moment!

Finally, the only direction for Nicola Sturgeon is downwards
politically, the retread party political election broadcast didn’t work this
time, not because it was patently dreadful and unfunny, it didn’t reflect where
Scotland
is now mentally. So, we have a horrible, cold and unattractive character like
Nicola Sturgeon trying to prop up her fading career, it is simply pitiful to
watch her trying to stop the slide.

Angela Merkel has inflicted on Europe, the biggest social crisis
that it has ever faced since WW2, Europe is
heading towards civil war, we have already seen the graphic detail of what has
transpired already which is documented, but this will be remembered as the good
old days.

Because much worse is going to happen, the timescale of when
civil war will break out properly has been judged to be about 30 years if you
believe the military, it may be sooner. In countries we are seeing the rise of
people power against their politicians, and we have seen in EU countries like Poland and Hungary the unwillingness to bend
to German oppression.

We have been here before in history where a minority has
seized political control and used it to follow its own agenda not in line with
the people’s wishes, politics has been used as a Blitzkrieg to marginalise
people and remove from them their voice; specific people have used political
office to conquer territory then establish their own fiefdoms.

Under the guise of human rights, kindness and concern
politicians have ridden roughshod over its people with the EU providing support
and propaganda, the EU has been successful in buying off potential dissent by
use of money. Vast sections of our society which under normal circumstances
would be protesting are strangely quiet, money can do that sort of thing and it
is relatively cheap.

What I want to focus on is the trial that has begun for an
Afghan failed asylum seeker accused of killing an Afghan Christian convert
woman in front of her children.

Murder!

The 30-year-old Afghan stabbed a woman who converted to
Christianity, the killing occurred last year in April outside of a
supermarket in the German municipality
of Prien am Chiemsee in Bavaria. The Afghan man
approached the mother of four and then used a knife to cut and stab her 16
times in front of two of her underage children.

When this goes to trial, he will be convicted, but the fact
is this individual should never have been allowed to set foot on German soil or
the soil of any other member states. What is needed is detention camps, and
camps in Africa to remove these people to. The
murder of this innocent woman is the fault of people like Angela Merkel, just
as the explosion in migrant crime of rape, robbery and terrorism can be laid at
her door.

I see Angela Merkel as a criminal who should be tried, sentenced
and should spend the rest of her life behind bars.

Despite an ambulance and police arriving on the scene a
short time later but the woman succumbed to her wounds on the way to the
hospital, 16 stab wounds is a lot, the blood loss would have sent her into
shock and from there her body shut down. Although the rejected asylum seeker
admitted to the murder, he claims that he had done so because he was frustrated
regarding his failed asylum application. After his lengthy prison sentence,
this guy should be deported back to Afghanistan. This isn’t an isolated
case, in Sweden a failed
asylum seeker from Eritrea
entered an Ikea store, took a knife from the kitchen section, and stabbed a
woman and her son to death. He was unhappy after being told his asylum claim
had been rejected and wanted revenge so he was quite happy to murder two
people.

Although politicians right these cases off by claiming
isolated incidents, there is a pattern; part of the deceit of the migrant
nightmare is that politicians find an educated migrant usually with a university
degree and use this to paint a false image, and of course use this to paint
people as racist when they speak out.

The trial of the Afghan migrant is expected to end on
February 9th, it will be interesting to see what in terms of a
sentence he will receive, if that doesn’t include deportation then the German
justice system has failed not just the victim but the German people.

Violence against Christian converts by Muslims has been an
issue for German authorities throughout the migrant crisis. It is said that 40,000
Christians were being persecuted in Germany by Muslims, intimidation
and violence causing them to flee asylum centres.

If you head over to Belgium, you can experience similar
problems to what is going on in Germany, Belgian police shot an Afghan migrant
at Ghent station after the man approached officers, threatening to attack them,
and ignored orders to drop a knife.

Europe needs to setup
detention camps; camps that are a staging post to return failed asylum seekers
back to their home country, deportation should mean a life time ban from entry
to any EU member state.

Belgian Flemish newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws reports
that rumours the man quoted verses of the Quran during the attack, two shots
were fired by the officers after the man failed to respond to orders to drop a
knife. He lives, but like the criminal in Germany, he should be deported
after he has served time in prison, what is needed here is zero tolerance, not
compassion, not empathy but process.

Finally, another interesting titbit from Sweden, the rape capital of the world is that Number
of ‘Asylum Seeker’ War Criminals discovered in Sweden has doubled in two years. This
bit will certainly make you think, nine in ten ‘Underage’ Moroccans in Sweden were caught
lying about their age, this came to light as Swedes managed to access the Moroccan
police fingerprint database. Asylum seekers are often rejected for asylum
status for being bogus, and many end up living homeless or getting involved in
organised crime.

And stupidity the West lets them live among us to rob,
murder and rape.

The answer is yes, but the age old question of who do we
lock up and for what crimes is always a bugbear.

Prison is expensive, it is said to cost the state about
£42,000 a year to lock someone up after they have been convicted. This is a
huge cost but on top of that figure, everyone who is locked up isn’t
contributing to society in terms of production, taxes and having the
opportunity to be part of our community.

The greater good is served by locking some people, people
who murder, maim and commit other serious offences need to be removed from
society because of the danger they represent.

At present, there is a suggestion that only those accused of
the most serious crimes will be held in police custody after being
charged, this leads to the question, what is serious and where will the bar be
set. The move is said to be part of a radical overhaul of the justice system,
the SNP love using the word ‘radical’ but it doesn’t have the same meaning for
them as it does in the dictionary. Radical in the SNP means a PR gimmick to
create a scenario in the minds of the public which may or may not exist. At
present, if arrested by police, officers have the option to bail suspects to
appear in court at a later date. This is sensible, because we don’t want to
clutter up police stations and prisons with people charged with minor crimes
such as mentioned like traffic offences.

In 2016, we saw the SNP pass the 2016 Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act, now this is being extended so police to “take
every precaution to ensure a person is not unreasonably or unnecessarily held
in police custody”.

A spokeswoman added:

“The police will continue to have the option to liberate
individuals charged with an offence on ‘undertakings’, which sets a date for a person
to make their first appearance at court. The act also introduces ‘investigative
liberation’ as a new power for the police to facilitate a suspect’s release
from custody, with conditions, allowing the police to continue to conduct their
inquiries whilst realising the person’s right to liberty.”

You might want to have a gander at this if you are baffled
by the term, ‘investigative liberation’ because basically it sounds to me like,
‘police continuing their enquires’!

Legal sources have raised concerns that only those suspected
of murder are expected to be denied police bail, although police have to deal
with people who use crime as a funding mechanism to earn money, even repeat
offenders will get the chance to get out. One thing which I don’t think will
sit well with the public is those suspected of offences like rape being released
pending a court appearance.

At present as we keep reading there is a crisis in justice
because hundreds of private practice solicitors pull out of providing advice to
suspects ahead of the legislation coming into force. Denial of right to a solicitor
could see guilty people walk free which isn’t a situation which is tenable. In
the past, it took the Supreme Court in London
to ensure that the SNP granted accused people the right to legal representation.
The SNP fought against this citing ‘safeguards’ as an excuse to deny human
rights to people, that argument fell flat.

Here is a blog post I did from 2011; the Cadder Case was a
clear cut case of human rights being suppressed, why the SNP went ahead with a
case when it was patently a loser is beyond me, they were always going to get
stuffed. That being the case, justice in Scotland grinds slowly and as of
Thursday anyone in custody will have the right to ask to speak to a solicitor
at any time, this is important.

For your entertainment, watch this, informative and funny
and I would say relevant to guide you through the mysteries of life.

If you fall foul of the law either deliberately or as an
innocent, you might find yourself locked up, if so the Scottish Legal Aid Board
(SLAB) runs the duty rota scheme, so that you can get access to legal advice.

A source said:

“If you are in custody you have a right to access legal
advice. If the police can’t provide suspects with the lawyer they have the
statutory right to, then they’ll have to make sure the suspects are not in
custody.”

Clearly it is in the interests of society that we have duty solicitors
on call so anyone in custody will have the right to ask to speak to a solicitor
at any time. The problem at present which has slipped off the SNP radar is that
some solicitors who cover the duty rota overnight have withdrawn from the
scheme, this begs the question why the SNP haven’t ensured that Defence
Solicitors’ Office (PDSO), which has bases in Ayr, Dundee, Edinburgh,
Falkirk, Glasgow, Inverness and Kirkwall is fit to cope with
increased demand.

If Edinburgh Bar Association president Leanne McQuillan is
right that her association could not “responsibly advise our members to
undertake to service the police station duty scheme as we simply do not have
the resources to do so”. It stands to reason that the bulk of this work should
be done by a public defender service so that a person’s human rights are
respected through-out the entire process.

If later a person wishes a preferred solicitor or firm that
is entirely their decision. The important thing is that justice is done and
seen to be done so people know our legal system is beyond reproach.

If you have watched
the legal system in passing you will see we always get a situation where Solicitor
groups across the country have raised concerns about the sustainability of the
legal aid system regarding fees at their current level. This is an issue that
runs, and it will always do so. Last week solicitors in Banff,
Peterhead and Orkney voted to come off the rota, with 50 solicitors in Dundee withdrawing as of yesterday, this isn’t
acceptable, this is a problem and it is a problem which the SNP have left to
fester, well the chickens are coming home to roost now.

Glasgow Bar Association (GBA) decided not to vote on whether
to withdraw from the scheme at this stage; they of course do a roaring trade as
Glasgow has a
busy court system.

GBA president Ron Mackenna said:

“Our position is that the majority of our members were in
favour of coming out but we’ve agreed to make an attempt at open dialogue. If
that fails we will put it to the vote.”

A SLAB spokesman said:

“It is vital there are arrangements to provide advice to
those in custody and appearing in court.”

One thing which the SNP justice sec has managed to do rather
well after being appointed is to be anonymous, in fact, if he was a pensioner
in a flat you might think as no one sees him that he has pegged it on the
living room floor.

Justice Sec Michael Matheson is alive!

The salary he earns is still getting drawn, so the people of
Scotland should have the right to tell him to fix the problems with the duty
rota scheme, if that means having it out in Cabinet with Nicola Sturgeon to get more money, then
that is the case he should be fighting.

One thing you can count on in the Labour Party is diverse
opinions, in the party you have all sorts, the extreme left and the extreme
right in among the vast membership. At present, the leader of the Labour Party
is Jeremy Corbyn, his election, then re-election was a response to having what
some termed the extreme right dominating the party.

This crew are known by many names, the ‘Blair Faction’ or ‘Progress’,
these are the middle class people who preach endlessly about their love for a
fair society and wanting to end injustice and inequality for the poor and disadvantaged.
At present, these people are railing against all kinds of government policy, conveniently
for getting about the fact that some of the current policies were introduced by
a Labour Government. Under the Labour Party, the poor found out the ‘joys’ of
ATOS assessments and everyone’s all time favourite, the bedroom tax.

One thing, I see as a Labour member is a striking lack of
people in the party as members who aren’t active for the party, this is the
real legacy of the post Blair era. I love pictures because a picture tells you
a story, if you know what you are looking at. So, to educate you on the health
of the party, have a look at the picture which accompanies this post.

What do you see?

This is the people who turned out at Glasgow South West for
the Labour Action day, sadly I wasn’t able to go as I had studying to do,
planar tracking (don’t ask)! Most of the people in this picture are either
elected or connected to the party, you might think that the 27 people seen
there were Pollok CLP members, this wasn’t entirely the case.

It seems that the Labour Party has a lot of work to do to
win back voters and their own members. Interestingly, the Times says 60% of
people feel their views are not represented in British politics, something
which the Labour Party needs to tap into on both sides of the border, if they
want to form a government.

I notice some people in the Labour Party are saying ‘General
election in 2018’ to the membership……….. bollocks!

I have to say, that I have never been a fan of Labour peer, Lord
Mandelson, he was to me, everything which was wrong about the Blair era….. for
the few, for the rich and his own personal agenda. I find it no surprise that Mandelson
apparently wants to stab the people of the UK
in the back with his alleged secret vow to help Brussels in Brexit talks.

It seems the Labour peer is more 'deeply committed' to the
EU than his own countrymen, in a letter to Michel Barnier Mandelson, he is
offered to brief him on current pressures facing the Europeans. Mandelson was a
former EU commissioner. One thing we know is that the EU project is dying; it
isn’t just the UK
leaving but the disquiet of other people in member states.

The Hungarians have been in the forefront of being vocal
about what has gone wrong in Europe.

Anyway, Barnier has said however that he didn't have time
for a meeting but expressed his 'sincere thanks' for offer; Mandelson is in
line for an annual pension of £35,000 from Brussels. European commissioners must remain
loyal to Brussels
to guarantee a generous pension. EU rules also state that they have to maintain
a 'duty of loyalty to the Communities... both during and after their term of
office'.

Annual pension of £35,000….. not enough for bought loyalty I
would suggest!

The Labour Party has many issues to address and it better
start soon, people like Mnadelson are sailing their own ship.

Personally, I would remove him as a Labour Peer; however the
problems at ground level are even more important for the party, particularly in
Scotland.
Seats are won by hard graft and commitment on a week in and week out basis; so
far I have seen polls saying support is falling, not a recipe that wins Westminster.

This part struck me as relevant, Citizens Advice suggests that “Someone providing
goods, facilities or services must not … provide any of these things on
less favourable terms or conditions because of your race”, suggesting the
Labour Party’s decision to financially penalise white people in Loughborough
may well be illegal.

Here is a laugh, “We need to "change the
narrative" on migration in light of Brexit”, says Nicola Sturgeon. Staring laughing any time, there is no ‘we’ in this
situation because the majority of Scots don’t want immigration to be devolved
to the Scottish Parliament.

They want immigration cut.

The fact Nicola Sturgeon has called for new national debate
on immigration is entirely meaningless, the fact she uses scaremonger tactics shows
clearly she doesn’t have a case to present. I object to her using scare tactics
of long-term harm to public services and the economy because, we have a surplus
of labour in this country.

This surplus is currently known by the term unemployed.

God
forbid that someone like Sturgeon might manage to come to the conclusion that
there should be a change to the narrative to help them get the skills they
need. Education isn’t just an investment in the individual, it is
an investment in the nation; this is why any developed or developing country
must prioritise educational attainment for its citizens. During the SNP tenure
in government, they have destroyed circa 140,000 college places, 140,000 life
chances lost.

The SNP aren’t really interested in anything other than independence
so immigration is just a tactic for them to attempt to advance their cause; and
with Nicola Sturgeon at the helm of the SNP, doomed to failure. No one in their
right mind is going to allow two immigration systems to operate in the UK, this is
madness, and unworkable. What Sturgeon is doing is trying to gerrymander any
attempt at a future independence vote, clearly we all see through her nonsense.

Should Brexit cut the flow of EU migrants to Scotland, yes and no, there is already
legislation on the books which allows for skilled workers to come to Scotland. This
means that in areas like medicine gaps can be filled easily. In previous posts
I related how no government would stop the traffic for medical personnel due to
the nature of how closely medicine is tied to higher education. At present, we
are still in the EU and guess what our health service is in crisis, so Sturgeon’s
argument isn’t valid, in fact it is just pitiful.

Nicola Sturgeon can’t “change the narrative” on migration,
and persuade people it was vital to the national interest because people
already know her concern is fake and more importantly, it’s a ploy. Although
Sturgeon admitted it was not an easy subject for politicians because people
know that their concerns have previously been ignored. I find it abit rich that
now she says that people’s concerns "cannot simply be dismissed" when
she had no problems doing this in the past.

Oh, and if you want to find out how bad immigration is when
it spirals out of control, just google or use youtube to look up Govanhill, I
think the place now can best be described as a ‘shithole’.

Of course, in Sturgeon’s immigration plea places like
Govanhill are completely forgotten as they don’t fit the narrative. When it
comes to migrants, the SNP tend to find one that is academically qualified, preferably
a doctor so that they can sell their pitch. If you walk around Glasgow, you can see EU nationals, the Roma
Community which come into the city centre in gangs to beg. Of course, it isn’t
just organised begging which this community is doing; they are also involved in
crime.

Ms Sturgeon faces an uphill struggle to sell her
message which is bogus. The National Centre for Social Research reported a
majority of Scots want to restrict immigration for EU citizens after Brexit,
along with leaving the European single market. So, on both counts, the SNP aren’t
in step with Scottish public opinion.

And haven’t been for years, they don’t think, they don’t
listen, they don’t see things through.

Recently to support her drivel, Sturgeon’s government published
a new Scottish Government analysis on Brexit which she thinks that paper will
influence debate ahead of the next phase of Brexit talks on the transition
period and future UK-EU trade relations.

It won’t, the reason is simple; no one cares a hoot about
Sturgeon’s opinion or that of her minority administration, Brexit is moving
forward and the SNP have no role in it, they aren’t influencing anything at any
level. Already Ruth Davidson has dismissed the report as a sham.

Finally, as they say, the devil is in the detail, which is
why I want to highlight this point made by Conservative MSP Adam Tomkins, he mentioned
the SNP has failed to report EU migration to Scotland increasing since the
Brexit vote.

Do you see how much utter contempt Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP
hold you in as a Scot?

It must be clear to you by now that Scottish independence
bids don’t hold any interest with the majority of the Scottish public. 2014
referendum came and went and the result was no surprise. The deeper the SNP get
into government, the more they prove that they are incapable to manage Scottish
affairs. It isn’t enough for them to shout, ‘Stronger for Scotland’ when
the reality is clearly the opposite.

Nicola Sturgeon’s career is on the slide, the faster she
tries to save it the less traction she gets, what will finish her off is her
record in government which is pitiful. In order to try and keep people on side,
Sturgeon will use any excuse to attempt to call a new referendum, the current
excuse is as we all know Brexit. Such is the contempt for democracy and the
Scottish people that she now has to use ‘will of the parliament’ as a mandate
when in fact the mandate should come from the voters.

The voters of Scotland do not want independence,
especially independence which endangers our national and economic security.

In order to try and appear relevant, Nicola Sturgeon insists
she will decide whether to hold a second independence referendum by the end of
the year.

Let us be absolutely clear, she doesn’t have the authority
to a second independence referendum, nor does she have a mandate from the
people. In 2021, the most important election possibly in Holyrood history takes
place; the outcome of that election should end the independence question for
quite some time. 2021 is the looking like the year of a hung parliament at this
stage as people desert the SNP as either voters or party members.

One thing which is taken by many as a ‘given’ is that no
matter how good the UK Brexit talks are Nicola Sturgeon will still try to
justify a new referendum. What Sturgeon is doing is trying to keep onside her
own wee bitter nationalists who will probably end up turning on her for a
failure to deliver. I would say that the way things stand at present even if
Sturgeon gets the Scottish Greens on board she won’t have enough votes to get a
majority.

No majority seems to be the state of play, and has been for
some time now!

Scottish Conservative MP John Lamont said:

“Nicola Sturgeon has no interest in securing a
successful Brexit deal, all she cares about is a second independence referendum”.

He is right and he also added:

“She has created a damaging distraction when her priority
should be working with the UK Government to get the right deal for Scotland and the whole of the UK. She should
take the threat of a second independence referendum off the table. Instead she
has put it front and centre - which is the last thing Scots want or need.”

In politics, the rule of thumb to get elected is to give the
people what they want and clearly since the debacle of 2014, the public don’t
want to know, they want to get on with their lives and have some sense of
security.

And that isn’t what Nicola Sturgeon is providing, our
national and economic security is paramount importance to Scots, we have seen
what happens to countries when this is out of kilter…… chaos.

Another interesting but doomed ploy was the SNP trying to
get the Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn on board for a majority in the House
of Commons for staying in the single market.

If you don’t know what that in the electoral sense, allow me
to explain, it means political suicide for the Labour Party and its leader.
Although I have blogged that Jeremy Corbyn in the past hasn’t handled foreign
affairs well, on this issue, he is smart enough to realise the concept that the
people have made a decision.

There is no question of Labour gets its act together to
join a coalition of the damned because Sturgeon’s nonsense isn’t the bigger
picture. To refresh your memory, parliament agreed to abide by the decision of
the Brexit vote.

In grasping at straws, Sturgeon said:

“The vast majority of Labour members want to see the UK stay in the
single market, so if we can bring that consensus together then I believe there
is an opportunity. Jeremy Corbyn has to decide where he stands on all of
this. I think most of his supporters will be deeply disappointed that he
appears to be only slightly less in favour of a hard Brexit than the Tories are
and many will find that completely inexplicable.”

Jeremy Corbyn has said:

“the single market is dependent on membership of the
European Union.”

Recently SNP MP Ian Blackford tried to urge Labour to join a
cross-party bid to keep the UK in the single market and customs union, with his
SNP group, Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru and Greens, that was ignored,
and rightly so.

A UK Government spokeswoman said:

"We are seeking a deal that works for the whole of the UK, that
delivers on the result of the EU referendum. Rather than trying to undermine
the result of a democratic referendum, we urge the Scottish Government to work
with us to ensure, as we leave the EU, we protect the UK's vital
internal market. Scotland
trades four times as much with the rest of the UK as it does with the EU, so it is
vital that we ensure that market continues unimpeded."

Finally, when you play games, there comes a time when the
games must end, when Sturgeon’s game ends, the SNP will have to finally accept
that they are just a minority administration going nowhere, and more
importantly have nothing to offer the people of Scotland.

Then the people who have
been ignored will get their opportunity at the ballot box and decide what they
want, they want better health services, better education, better law and order,
improvements to infrastructure and economic growth, all of which is beyond the
limited ability of Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP as a whole.

Thursday, January 11, 2018

As a long time movie buff, I was always knocked out by special effects in movies, the skills you see exhibited today are truly mind blowing. Today instead of a politics post, I would like to highlight a company called Video Copilot which makes products for motion graphics.

What makes this company a market leader is that as well as selling top quality products, they create tutorials which give people ideas how to use their products. Of course Video Copilot isn't the only company to do this but Andrew Kramer, who owns it is generally regarded as a 'rock star' of the After Effects community and each year he does a presentation for Adobe at the NAB show.

Andrew Kramer passes on knowledge which has helped many people learn cgi, and what is incredible is that he was self taught. Self taught and he ended up doing the titles for the revamped first Star Trek movie starring Chris Pine.

Anyway, the tutorial I selected is called City Destruction, it is a step by step indepth tutorial which combines several elements of motion graphics such as 3d tracking, and creating an illusion of looking inside a destroyed building when in fact you are looking at 2D pictures.

I hope you will watch this tutorial, I have many times, it is truly excellent in terms of quality and teaching.

One of the problems in politics which is major in my opinion
is the complete disregard for public opinion. Politicians are elected to ‘serve
the public’, but because of the fractionalisation of politics in this country,
and the rise of ‘vested minorities’ who operate to their own agenda, the public
have been disenfranchised and more or less shut out of the political discourse.

In politics, the political elite tread their own path while
preaching they are acting in your best interests, it is a lie which has been
sold to the people time and time again, which is why we have the unhealthy see
saw politics, we kick one set of people out of public office only to get rid of
them to allow the others back in, whether that be through election bribes or us
being plain sick of what the incumbents have been doing with our democracy and
money.

Scots are in the main socially conservatives, which means
they value community, social cohesion, fair play and a just society. Society by
its very nature must work for all citizens or that will lead to the breakdown
of community. Over the last few decades, we have seen the disastrous
consequences of ‘social engineering’ that have been inflicted on the UK, we are
told this is a good thing, but the reality is very different depending on which
level of society you find yourself at.

I was heavily involved in the Brexit campaign back in 2016,
my reason for joining the campaign was based on the fact that the people of the
UK
needed to reclaim their sovereignty back from the EU which is spiralling out of
control. To me, the sovereignty argument was crucial because although we are
told how ‘great’ the EU, as events in Europe
have shown, the continent is heading towards a dark place.

In a recent poll, information has come forward that the
majority of Scots want to curb EU immigration after Brexit.

This is because most Scots whatever shade their political beliefs
take understand that social cohesion and community is a priority for them,
people want to believe that everyone in society should get the opportunity to
progress, but sadly we know otherwise. If you walk by any street in a major
city, you see our citizens sleeping rough in the streets…….

Our citizens failed by our politicians in our society.

A survey by the National Centre for Social Research shows
that most Scots agree with the George Laird view that we should leave the
European single market and restrict immigration for EU citizens after Brexit.
It is time to rebuild our society, fix our problems; help our citizens and
those who have been granted the legal right to stay here.

An aspect of the survey which is bound to anger the SNP; is
that Scottish voters believe powers on immigration and trade should remain
UK-wide and controlled by Whitehall, a staggering 63 and 67 per cent
respectively. The news also kills the SNP narrative that more liberal attitude
towards the European Union and freedom of movement than residents in England. If you
live in Liverpool, Manchester or Glasgow, chances are you have the same social outlook as
anywhere else in the UK,
shared common experiences.

Another nail in the coffin of Nicola Sturgeon who leads the
SNP has been the chaotic way that she has systematically destroyed the support
for the party since she took the reins of power from Alex Salmond, her incompetence
both on domestic issues and external matters has caused a “swing against
independence”. The less then serious attitude to major problems, disregard for
the views of ordinary people and just plain bad judgement have started the rot
which is truly spectacular, all through self harm!

One thing in the survey which, I have strongly advocated for
years is an end to freedom of movement, the EU while smaller could cope with
such a measure as most countries in the block were of similar economic status,
now the EU is 28 members States; the policy is no longer feasible or desirable.

In a previous post on EU reform, I advocated that there
should be an EU internal immigration policy for EU citizens, a policy which is
sorely needed within the block. The EU is in crisis which is why “majority of
people in Scotland would
prefer to see an end to freedom of movement with the EU”, by getting out of the
block, we have been sensible which in due time will be common knowledge. I
think immigration is a good thing, I have always said so publicly, there are
various reasons why such as transfer or knowledge, skills and of course
diversity, but the problem arises when we don’t get the balance right.

When we don’t get balance right we end up with ghettos such
as Govanhill in Glasgow!

59 per cent of voters in Scotland thought potential EU
migrants to the UK should have to apply to come here, this should be the policy
through-out the EU if someone wishes to transfer to another member country, not
having this measure is a mistake.

“Our results suggest that both the UK and the Scottish Government may need to do
some rethinking of their plans for post-Brexit Scotland. The UK Government’s
proposal that EU responsibilities for devolved areas such as fishing and
farming should in the first instance at least be given to Westminster appears to be out of tune with
the public mood north of the border. But equally, the Scottish Government
appears to have made little headway in persuading voters that Scotland should
have a closer relationship with the EU post-Brexit. Most still think the rules
on EU trade and immigration should be the same in Scotland
as in the rest of the UK.”

I see no problem in allowing farming to be transfer,
however, I am not convinced and I think this hasn’t been fully explain the
ramifications of transferring fishing to the Scottish Government, I think this
should remain a reserved matter because under the SNP I can see this being
problematic.

Finally, although the findings are extremely bad news for
the SNP, they are still clinging to this research showing people in Scotland believe decisions on all devolved
issues should continue to be made here in Scotland. What they are failng to
grasp is that the movement away from them in terms of support is showing that
their grasp on power is ebbing away, each and every day.

Although you might not realise, the 6 May 2021 is going to
be the most important date in Scottish electoral history since Holyrood opened
its doors!

Isn’t it sad when ‘buddies’ fall out and out comes the bitchiness,
after being dumped by the electorate, Scotland’s ‘jolly fat man’ Alex Salmond
embarked on a tv career.

No one in the UK from the main stations such as BBC, Sky
or ITV were biting, so Salmond ends up doing the Alex Salmond's Kremlin TV show.

Oh how the mighty have fallen!

Along with Salmond, he was
joined by Tasmina Ahmed-Shiekh as a ‘roving reporter’ (you may laugh at this
point if you wish).

It seems that the Salmond/ Sturgeon double act has been
replaced by the Salmond/ Shiekh double act, this may explain the public bitchiness
of Nicola Sturgeon as she boldly declares that she is snubbing the show.

In
fact, to get as much bitchiness out as humanly possibly she has revealed she
has never watched any of Alex Salmond’s TV shows on a Russian propaganda
channel.

Why the public bitchiness?

Her excuse and it is pitiful is that Salmond’s programme is on
at the wrong time of day, hasn’t she heard of Youtube?

The main problem with
the Alex Salmond's Kremlin TV show is it is a pile of low level dross with
Salmond as the ‘ringmaster’ of this circus. In a TV special, Salmond wore a
kilt which during a chat with Tasmina Ahmed-Shiekh, he sat with his legs wide
open!

Maybe there is room for change perhaps a desk!

Ms. Ahmed-Shiekh
on the other hand decided to keep her legs shut wearing a lime green outfit
opting for a more stylish traditional approach rather than Salmond dressed like
a reject from a wedding reception.

It seems the great partnership of Salmond/ Sturgeon which
saw numerous hugs and kisses when he was leader at SNP Conferences has faded,
Sturgeon says she only tunes into his radio output “occasionally”.

Nicola Sturgeon doesn’t like the fact that her mentor struck
a deal to host a weekly show on the pro-Putin outlet RT, personally, what is
the big deal, Salmond is like a limelight addict, he can’t bear to be out of
the spotlight, and Sturgeon never gave him a job.

It seems to me that Nicola Sturgeon is under pressure
lashing out as anyone and everyone as the polls show she is leading the SNP
down the drain politically, fails at every turn, fake concern at every crisis,
and mealy mouth apologies becoming a predictable routine.

Alex Salmond has let it be known that if there is a
by-election for the Aberdeen Donside Constituency at Holyrood, he wants to be
the candidate, with this statement, the alarm bells for a Salmond comeback must
have gone off in Nicola Sturgeon’s head, and let’s face, does she really want
him back, she is quite happy ‘milking that FM salary on all four tits’ before
the jig is up.

So, what should Alex Salmond do now that Nicola Sturgeon has
reared up with the bitchy comments, well the rule of thumb would just to ignore
her, Salmond has a new pal, a new follower in Tasmina Ahmed-Shiekh. Nicola
Sturgeon needs to ‘calm down’; she needs to stop ‘overreacting’.

There is
nothing dignified in a woman of a mature age like Nicola Sturgeon resorting to
this type of behaviour, she has been left out of the 'party', she needs to accept
it and move on.

Maybe Nicola Sturgeon needs to do a ten minute bitch-fest in
the morning before she goes out the door to work, that might, just might
fix her being the cold and unattractive character that she has become.

Finally, I think that Tasmina Ahmed-Shiekh should give
Nicola Sturgeon some style tips, her awful choice of clothing and footwear
makes her look like a fright. Although Ms. Sturgeon has recently said she is
going to take up exercise she really needs to do something major about her
sagging body parts, gravity isn’t being kind, she needs to learn to suck in her
stomach.

It seems that Nicola Sturgeon is refusing to say much how
longer the sleaze probe into one of her former ministers will last. Apparently
there is an SNP ‘investigation’ into sleazy SNP MSP Mark McDonald who had to
resign in disgrace as a minister.

One has to wonder how an investigation can take two months
and still not produce a result.

Nicola Sturgeon is saying that the investigation would “take
as long as it takes”, so, what about the alleged female victims, apparently the
women who complained about him can just wait for answers.

She said:

“It will take as long as it takes. I’m not going to put
artificial timescales on things. It’s important that things are looked into
properly, extensively, due process is followed, and when an investigation
concludes then the outcome of that investigation will be made known. This is
the right way to go about these things.”

Doesn’t sound too hopeful for the women, more for Mark
McDonald who must be desperate to hang onto his seat, also, I wonder if Nicola Sturgeon
wants to keep McDonald in the fold so as not to have Alex Salmond possibly back
at Holyrood in the event of a by-election.

Usually in matters relating to sleazy sex stories, the party
who has the rat faces a rather uphill to retain the seat.

The SNP as pundits know is administered by Sturgeon’s
husband, party chief executive Peter Murrell, my experience of him is that he
isn’t interested in investigating complaints and neither are the other staff.
If the women victims aren’t high profile SNP Cult members then they can expect
no help, in the case of Bill Walker, because of the Sturgeon connection, the
SNP had to disown him to protect Sturgeon.

SNP MSP Mark McDonald has been absent from Holyrood since
he quit as childcare minister on November 4, I suspect that this means he has
more hiding to do because of the type of “inappropriate” behaviour. Having been
caught out like a rat in a spotlight, McDonald tried to downplay the scandal as
misguided attempts at humour.

In a show of bravado, he even suggested he might return as a
minister in the future but let’s be serious, he is cooked, and Sturgeon trying
to hold onto him as an MSP is a big mistake, there comes a time when you have
to cut deadwood adrift.

The full extent of Nicola Sturgeon’s contempt for this
situation was summed up as she said about McDonald:

Nicola Sturgeon gets a lot wrong; SNP MSP Mark McDonald is a
political liability who threatens the fake narrative that the SNP crafted that
they support women. McDonald admitted
his action had caused “considerable distress and upset” but after November 16,
further allegations against him popped up, that led the SNP to finally removed
the party whip followed by suspension from the party which makes McDonald
technically an independent MSP for the Aberdeen Donside constituency.

The SNP don’t want a by-election because although they have
a huge margin compared to the other two possible contenders, the stench of
having to fight a by-election where the allegations of McDonald are at the fore
doesn’t really appeal, even if they get the win. Mind you if Alex Salmond
stands, this might impact the 17,339 votes to such a degree that a short term
win could lead to a long term loss down the line.

It rather looks like the SNP want to bury this investigation
or produce a result that says they don’t have enough evidence to proceed in
order to get Mark McDonald and Nicola Sturgeon off the hook. So far, the
investigation has produced nothing for the female victims, it remains to be
seen if they can get justice.

Anyone up for a by-election in the Donside, lovely area,
just the place for strolling about talking to the natives!

Finally, when it comes to sexual matters, the SNP senior
elected representatives don’t have an impressive track record, we have seen
wife beating, adulterers and people with failed marriages make it through the
ranks as candidates to become elected representatives, hardly Stronger for Scotland.